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  • Patching in SCCM 2007

    Here’s a summary of some of the most significant differences I found in patching between SMS 2003 and SCCM 2007. Note that other differences I don’t list may be significant to your deployment process. It’s vital to thoroughly test this and plan the changes you’d make to your environment. Also, these...
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 11-20-2007
    Filed under: Distribute Software Update Wizard, Patching, Patch Management, patch scheduling, Patch deployment strategy, Baseline, ConfigMgr, Configuration Manager, SCCM, Software Updates

  • Recurring advertisements are required for patching

    My co-worker Shaun Cassells made an important discovery when we began patching with SMS 2003. When you advertise the patch update packages, you must always set up a recurring execution. The logic of the patchinstall process requires this if users are permitted to postpone the updates. See KB842717 ....
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 10-16-2007
    Filed under: Distribute Software Update Wizard, Patching, DSUW settings, Patch Management, patch scheduling, Patch deployment strategy

  • Allowing selected users to postpone patching

    Someone asked an interesting question in the mssms mailing list recently. I answered it there, and thought it was worth recording in a blog as well. He wanted to know how to deploy patches so that some users could postpone the update, while the others could not. It's actually fairly simple. What...
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 08-26-2007
    Filed under: Distribute Software Update Wizard, Patching, DSUW settings, Patch Management, Patch deployment strategy

  • Identifying and selecting Office patches

    If you are preparing your first Office patches, you may have a hard time finding them in the Distribute Software Updates Wizard. Office patches are set up a little differently than OS patches. How differently depends on whether you are using ITMU or the SUSFP Office scanner. In each case, the main problem...
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 08-18-2007
    Filed under: Distribute Software Update Wizard, Patching, DSUW settings, Patch Management, Patch deployment strategy, Baseline

  • Unexpected reboots when patching

    Have you ever had users complain that their computer rebooted unexpectedly about the time you deployed patches? Maybe it gave them a brief warning, but no chance to postpone? We ran into that, and it took a fair bit of digging to get the answer. We found out that one of the first things that the patch...
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 08-07-2007
    Filed under: Distribute Software Update Wizard, Patching, Patch Management, patch scheduling, Patch deployment strategy, reboots

  • Baseline Patching

    Do you concentrate just on applying the latest updates? Do you figure that once last month's patches are done you can forget about them? If so, you are leaving some machines vulnerable without realizing it. Every time an application is installed, or uninstalled and reinstalled, there may be appropriate...
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 08-07-2007
    Filed under: Distribute Software Update Wizard, Patching, Patch Management, patch scheduling, Patch deployment strategy, reboots, Baseline

  • Patch Deployment Strategy and Scheduling

    How do you schedule when updates will be applied to your machines? What deployment strategy and design do you use? Patching always carries the risk of unnecessary accidental disruption, but that risk can be minimized through careful scheduling, planning and processes. This is partly scheduling and partly...
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 08-06-2007
    Filed under: Distribute Software Update Wizard, Patching, DSUW settings, Patch Management, patch scheduling, Patch deployment strategy
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